Vajrayāna

From Buddha-Nature
Sanskrit Noun

Vajrayāna

Diamond Vehicle
वज्रयान
རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐེག་པ།
金剛乘

Basic Meaning

The esoteric Buddhist tradition which developed as a syncretic system involving deity worship, use of mantras, physical energy, and mystical practices. It is also known as the mantra tradition and the tantric school as a result of being based on texts known as tantras.

Term Variations
Key Term Vajrayāna
Topic Variation Vajrayāna
Tibetan རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐེག་པ།  ( dorje thekpa)
Wylie Tibetan Transliteration rdo rje theg pa  ( dorje thekpa)
Devanagari Sanskrit वज्रयान
Romanized Sanskrit vajrayāna
Chinese 金剛乘
Chinese Pinyin Jin'gangsheng
Buddha-nature Site Standard English Diamond Vehicle
Jeffrey Hopkin's English Term Vajra Vehicle
Term Information
Source Language Sanskrit
Basic Meaning The esoteric Buddhist tradition which developed as a syncretic system involving deity worship, use of mantras, physical energy, and mystical practices. It is also known as the mantra tradition and the tantric school as a result of being based on texts known as tantras.
Related Terms tantra, secret mantra, mantra
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Term Type Noun
Definitions
Dung dkar Tshig mdzod Chen mo གསང་སྔགས་ཀྱི་ལམ་ལ་གོ་དགོས། དེ་ཡང་རྒྱུད་སྡེ་བཞི་ནས་བཤད་འི་ལམ་གྱི་རིམ་པ་རྣམས་ཡིན། ཐེག་པ་དང་ལམ་གཉིས་སྤྱི་དང་བྱེ་བྲག་ཡིན་པས་ཁྱབ་ཆེ་ཆུང་ཡོད།
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